Every home has a few secrets. Most are boring, like the drawer full of Schrödinger's batteries or the mystery key that opens nothing. Then someone pulls up a floorboard or knocks through a wall, and the house reveals what it has been hiding since before they moved in.
People on the Things Found In Walls page shared the strangest things they found lurking in their own houses, and the answers range from time capsules to messages left by previous owners who clearly had a lot on their minds. Some are charming. Others will make you rethink that renovation. Whatever you do, don't open the attic after dark
#61 I Present For Your Consideration A Roughly 70 Year Old Cemented Spider. Found In The Wall As We Took Down The Build-In Airing Cupboard, Next To My Side Of The Bed
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#62 Found In My Pasture In Southern Alberta, Property Was Once A Cattle Farm And Before That A Pig Farm
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#63 My House Was Built Around 1850, This Floor Was Put In By The 1880s. Found This Beside The Fireplace Under The Floor
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#65 Patient Of Mine Brought In This Vertebral Body (Spine Segment) For Show And Tell:). Found In FL Digging (Not Really Near To Water)
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#66 Today (9/26/26) My Wife Bought A Skirt From A Goodwill Here In Iowa. This Receipt Was In The Pocket...the Date On It Says 11/20/94!
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#67 When We Moved Into Our Home, We Learned That The Older Gentleman Who Lived Here Before Us Was (As Well As Being A Bit Of A Hoarder) A Worker For The Park Services
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#68 Help A Guy Out. I Found This Glass Coke Bottle In The Woods. The Cap Shows An Ad Campaign I Remember From 1995. Please Tell Me That This Bottle Still Has Coke In It From 30 Years Ago!
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#70 So I Recently Moved And In My Basement Is This Creepy Little Door And This Creepy Little Room Where The Creepy Little Door Is
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#71 I Went Out Metal Detecting Last Night For A Couple Of Hours Before The Sunset, Low Humidity And A Cool Breeze Made For A Perfect Evening Here In South Central Minnesota
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#72 We Live In Washington State. We’re In The Process Of Buying A House And Moving In. The Previous Owner Has Left Several Things Behind
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#73 I Went Out Metal Detecting Last Night To A Home For An Hour And The Home Wanted To See What I Might Find With His Young Daughter And Followed Along
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#74 My Sister Lives In Rosamond, California. They Were Chopping Down An Oleander Tree In Their Backyard, When They Found This Hanging On The Side Of Their Shed
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#75 Found A Book But It Was No Ordinary Book And After Several Attempts To Get It To The Owner, Finally Successful
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#76 Not How I Wanted To Start A Sunday. Found In The Ceiling Edit: They Were On The Top Plate Of The Shower Wall In The Basement
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#77 I Have Been In This House For Almost 4 Years. I Looked Up The Other Day And Saw This, Plain As Day, On A Fireplace Brick
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